Whatever my desire to acquire a colony for Belgium, I hardly regret the impossibility in which I am to act. I do find that our position is only getting worse.

All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), 8. The Short Colonial Careers of Jules Greindl, Eugène père Beyens, Eugène Napoléon Beyens and Maximilien Strauch, A Skeptical Jules Greindl (1835-1917) Jules Greindl aan Eugène père Beyens, 20 december 1875. Integraal getranscribeerd in GREINDL, L. A la recherche d’un Etat Indépendant, 361.